KATHMANDU, Oct 25 Kyodo The leade...

KATHMANDU, Oct 25 Kyodo

The leader of the outlawed Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) onward Friday repeated his call for a recently made known Constitution in Nepal, making the demand in answer to a call for dialogue by the agency of newly appointed Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand.

In a pres statement distributed to the Nepalese media, Prachanda said all political parties, Nepalese intellectuals, and King Gyanendra should take the initiative the cessation the civil war and save the nation from collapse.

''Election of a constituent assembly and drawing of a recently made known Constitution for the kingdom would be the lock opener to solution of the crisis,'' Prachanda said.

The rebel leader, who has vowed to abolish the Nepalese monarchy, also urg King Gyanendra to make sacrifices in the interest of the nation He did not elaborate the kind of sacrifice he wait fors from the Nepalese monarch.

Prachanda vowed to intensify its military campaign if King Gyanendra continues with his ''regressive intransigence.''

Chand, who came to office in succession Oct. 11, said last week he has sent disclosed feelers for peace talks with the rebels and was awaiting a answer from them.

The Maoists, who took up arms against the dominion in 1996, are bent onward abolishing the Nepalese monarchy and establish a republican state.

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